Why should you pay tax for gift?

Gift tax is for everything above 13000 a year. However, if you receive a gift of $450,000, you don't have to pay gift tax. All you need is to claim unified credit, the $450,000 would be tax free, but your mother's estate tax cap of 5 mil would be reduced by $450,000.

I think your estate lawyer should have told you this. Other than that, I don't really know why you have to pay tax if your mother gift you the house.

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• Well, I have to pay tax of capital gain. -qqh2oo- ♀ (22 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 13:00:19

• 看看这篇TurboTax 文，就知道楼主问啥担心交税了。 -水中捞月- ♂ (263 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 13:11:54

• 那是不是如果我有3米都给我儿子，一次性，因为没超过5.2米，我就不用付tax？ -cecillia- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 19:09:45

• Yes. You just have to put it on a different form, called Unified -lexm5- ♂ (308 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 19:35:19

• 是这个理。 但对房地产来说是活着时赠予，还是死后继承，对得到房地产的人， -水中捞月- ♂ (261 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 19:51:06

• Same is with stock, that's why leaving stock is better than leav -lexm5- ♂ (46 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 19:53:50